Plastic water bottles are the purest form of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET).
This is the base product of Dacron Sails, polyester clothing , and so many more plastic products we as consumers have embraced over the decades. Natural fibers have taken a back seat to synthetics.
OK. now several international companies are buying recycled PET (beverage bottles) to produce an extremely tough building material. It is used as a core in what is known as ''Sandwich Panel Construction'' look it up!
The core is also recyclable .
I have designed and built ocean going commercial vessels using the Sandwich Core Construction methodology.
The benefits to the owner were tremendous in terms of operational economics and very low maintenance.
This year one of my associate companies have designed an Advances Composite housing panel. based upon the strength of the vessels this product could easily sustain a Category 5 hurricane. All this was proven through trials and in concert with the Canadian National Research Council ... Industrial Research Assistance Program.
The Belgium compant Armacell International have been producing PET foam core since 2011; and for the past year have been producing the product in Brampton Ontario Canada.... They also have a cutting operation in North Carolina.
So someone out there is doing something to address the plastic bottle waste issue.
However as busy as they are, they only consume .5% of the available PET in Europe.
In Trinidad Tobago they produce about 250,000 tons of PET waste a year.
In Barbados they recycle PET into roofing slates (an European roofing shingle).
Opportunities to use this product is as large as ones imagination.
DR must produce at least 5 times the amount of PET as Trinidad Tobago.
There are opportunities to do something about the PET issue; just need more knowledgeable , younger entrepreneurs .
The Barbados Project was funded by the Banks Beer Company... now privately owned.
Enough talking, some one much younger than old gaffers like myself need to step up to the plate.
OH well! I have said enough ; time for my warm milk and massage.
Russell
This is the base product of Dacron Sails, polyester clothing , and so many more plastic products we as consumers have embraced over the decades. Natural fibers have taken a back seat to synthetics.
OK. now several international companies are buying recycled PET (beverage bottles) to produce an extremely tough building material. It is used as a core in what is known as ''Sandwich Panel Construction'' look it up!
The core is also recyclable .
I have designed and built ocean going commercial vessels using the Sandwich Core Construction methodology.
The benefits to the owner were tremendous in terms of operational economics and very low maintenance.
This year one of my associate companies have designed an Advances Composite housing panel. based upon the strength of the vessels this product could easily sustain a Category 5 hurricane. All this was proven through trials and in concert with the Canadian National Research Council ... Industrial Research Assistance Program.
The Belgium compant Armacell International have been producing PET foam core since 2011; and for the past year have been producing the product in Brampton Ontario Canada.... They also have a cutting operation in North Carolina.
So someone out there is doing something to address the plastic bottle waste issue.
However as busy as they are, they only consume .5% of the available PET in Europe.
In Trinidad Tobago they produce about 250,000 tons of PET waste a year.
In Barbados they recycle PET into roofing slates (an European roofing shingle).
Opportunities to use this product is as large as ones imagination.
DR must produce at least 5 times the amount of PET as Trinidad Tobago.
There are opportunities to do something about the PET issue; just need more knowledgeable , younger entrepreneurs .
The Barbados Project was funded by the Banks Beer Company... now privately owned.
Enough talking, some one much younger than old gaffers like myself need to step up to the plate.
OH well! I have said enough ; time for my warm milk and massage.
Russell